Performance Lead in Not Specified, NY

Global Financial Institution located in New York, NY has an immediate opening for a Performance Lead. Experience: 5-10 Education: Bachelors Degree Job Description: Lead performance testing streams for application verticals within the MSSB Technology Expansion and Build Out project Design and mentor those in creating best-in-class performance testing approaches and plans for enterprise-wide projects Assist project members with infrastructure and application performance monitoring and analysis Evaluate system capacity during end-to-end load tests Work tightly with application development, architecture, infrastructure and engineering groups for performance testing and application analysis initiatives to define success criteria and evaluation methodologies. Work closely with the test management team to establish performance testing criteria Provide quality, process and technical leadership within the Performance Management team Provide insight into performance bottlenecks leveraging a variety of skills and tool sets on multiple platforms Establish a strong presence as a change agent providing innovative, effective, and efficient Performance Management practices and solutions. Skills Required: 7 years experience in the performance engineering field Must possess a strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture and technologies including web, Web services, database, Mainframe and messaging layers as well as the monitoring solutions used to determine availability and performance. Must be well versed in using VUGen, and the reporting/analysis engine for Performance Center version 8.1, preferably 9.1 or greater. Must be able to create load test scripts using VUGen in at least two or more of the following protocols: HTTP, SOAP, ODBC, Terminal Emulator, Visual Basic, .NET and Java Should possess an understanding of software implementation approaches and quality assurance procedures. Must possess strong experience using and implementing best practice programs with respect to load generation, bottleneck analysis, usage of modeling tools, and statistical analysis. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong experience in Mainframe and distributed application performance testing Strong understanding and/or hands-on experience is required in the following categories: Operating System: Windows 2000/2003 Server, Red Hat Linux. J2EE Application Server: WebSphere. Database: DB2, SQL Server Application Development Platforms: .NET, J2EE, COM. Tools: HP suite of products specifically Performance Center and HP Diagnostics (.NET and J2EE) Skills Desired: Experience creating models using HyPerformix Capacity , Data and Performance Optimizer Skill Proficiency: Advanced To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here